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Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes

By John Whitman , Dianne Jonas , Andrew Garrett

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0199582629, 9780199582624
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2099512 bytes)
Series
Oxford Linguistics
Pages
400\397
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-09-02 22:02:14
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Грамматика (общая

Description

This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation, complementation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. The authors deploy a variety of generative frameworks, including minimalist and optimality theoretic, and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinct examples from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek, Korean and Japanese, Austronesian, Celtic, and Nahuatl. They draw on sociolinguistic evidence where appropriate. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a stimulating overview of key current issues in the investigation of the origins, nature, and outcome of syntactic change.

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